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The Hyde Park Barracks are at the southern end of Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The barracks are located near the north-east corner of Hyde Park, opposite Queens Square and beside the Sydney Mint. Hyde Park Barracks were designed by the colonial architect Francis Greenway and built between 1818 and 1819[1]. It is managed by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales as a museum that is open to the public for a modest fee.
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History
Constructed by convict labour in the 19th century, the Barracks is one of the most familiar works of the accomplished colonial England-born, Australian architect Francis Greenway. As the principal male convict barracks in New South Wales it provided lodgings for convicts working in government employment around Sydney until its closure in mid 1848.
It has had many occupants since then. It was an Immigration Depot for single female immigrants seeking work as domestic servants and awaiting family reunion from 1848 to 1886 and also a female asylum from 1862 to 1886. From 1887 to 1979 law courts and government offices were based at the Barracks.
Presently
In 1981, Hyde Park Barracks underwent conservation and adaptation work by award-winning architects Tonkin Greer and conservation architects Clive Lucas Stapleton and Partners. Now, the newly installed Hyde Park Barracks is a museum operated by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Tourists who visit the building discover the daily lives of convicts and other occupants through exhibitions on Sydney’s male convict labour force, Australia’s convict system, an innovative soundscape, excavated artefacts, exposed layers of building fabric and the complex’s rooms and spaces.
Gallery
 Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney during Macquarie Night Lights from 23 November to 25 December 2006 |
 Hyde Park Barracks in a 1914 drawing by William Hardy Wilson. |
 Hyde Park Barracks in 2006 operates as a museum |
References
External links
- "Hyde Park Barracks Museum". Historic Houses Trust. 2006. http://www.hht.net.au/museums/hyde_park_barracks_museum/hyde_park_barracks_museum. Retrieved 2006-02-23.
- A Place For The Friendless Female: Sydney's Female Immigration Depot (online version of the Hyde Park Barracks Museum exhibition by the same name)
- Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (Website)
- Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney is at 33°52′11″S 151°12′46″E / 33.869588°S 151.212748°ECoordinates: 33°52′11″S 151°12′46″E / 33.869588°S 151.212748°E
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